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The SawStop has been around for quite a few years – I’ve met the inventor of this at a wood show a couple of years ago.

Never saw such a man so secure in a product before – he has complete confidence that it has and will continue to save hands and fingers!

At the wood shows, he VERY quickly jams a piece of wood with a raw hot dog on top of it (think finger on top of wood) into the blade as fast as he can and BLAM! Saw blades drops faster than you can see it and all that’s damaged on the hot dog is a tiny nick! You would see more damage from a splinter.

They ARE expensive, but I suppose balance that to the cost of a finger or hand?

I wouldn’t put my weenie or my finger into a spinning blade…but it is interesting to see it done with Gass’s finger. Definitely makes me appreciate my SawStop. I have seen what a regular blade can do to a persons fingers and it ain’t pretty…

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